Homeplace: Care and resistance among public housing residents facing mixed-income redevelopment.

Homeplace: Care and resistance among public housing residents facing mixed-income redevelopment. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2020 Apr 20;: Authors: Hagan MJ, Hall AR, Mamo L, Ramos J, Dubbin L Abstract Low-income communities of color experience significant political, economic, and health inequities and, not unrelatedly, are disproportionately exposed to violent crime than are residents of higher income communities. In an effort to mitigate concentrations of poverty and crime, governmental agencies have partnered with affordable housing developers to redevelop public housing "projects" into mixed-income communities and to do so within a "trauma-informed" framework. The current study analyzes how residents have historically and contemporaneously negotiated, endured, and resisted structural and interpersonal violence in 2 long-standing, predominately African American, public housing communities undergoing a public-private housing redevelopment initiative. Interviews with 44 adult public housing residents (age range = 18-75 years; 82% African American/Black) were conducted during a 2-year period while residents' homes were being demolished and rebuilt into mixed-income communities. Analysis of in-depth interviews used constructivist grounded theory principles to reveal a common theme and basic social process of the ongoing formation of homeplace, with subthemes focusing on the ways homeplace emerges through shared lineage, knowing and caring p...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Am J Orthopsychiatry Source Type: research